Shona Robison insisted the extra cash announced by Rachel Reeves at yesterday's UK Budget was no 'bonanza'.
The SNP Government will not scrap the two-child cap on benefits despite being handed a £3.4 billion increase in spending, the Finance Secretary has suggested.
Robison later accepted the additional funding would be "largely" for the NHS and other frontline public services. Robison claimed today "austerity will continue for those impacted by the two-child cap, and also the loss of the winter fuel payment". “This isn’t a bonanza that allows us to spend money on mitigating, as we have done, largely mitigated a lot of Westminster welfare policies, but we can’t continue to mitigate.
While she said SNP ministers have “done so much to mitigate Westminster welfare policies”, she said the new money announced in the Budget “clearly has come to be directed to things like the NHS, and the NHS requires some investment”.
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